Makela Makela
Principal Researcher & Designer at Maybela XD
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolMakela Makela is a Principal Researcher & Designer who bridges user research, service design, and technical systems to make complex products usable and trustworthy. With eight years of focused experience and a longer history designing database applications for regulated environments, they translate mixed-methods insights into actionable product strategy and pragmatic engineering priorities. They have led 20+ person cross-functional Agile teams, run usability programs for government services, and recently served as UX research lead for an AI-powered educational chatbot for adolescents. A former database designer who built mobile field data systems for pipeline integrity, Makela uniquely blends data-fluent system thinking with inclusive, participatory research methods. As a consultant and community leader, they train and mentor professionals while running volunteer programming for UXPA International and IxDF Minneapolis, and as a homeschool educator have proven their ability to turn design into measurable learning gains.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of MinnesotaAssociate of Arts (AA), Associate of Arts (AA) at Minneapolis CollegeIxDF - The Interaction Design FoundationUX Design & Research, UX Design & Research at Prime Digital AcademyNormandale Community College
Github Skills (190)
quilt10
minecraft10
firefox-webextension10
emoji10
windows10
forge10
fabric10
launcher10
outliner10
tabs-management10
markdown10
linux10
latex10
vue10
minecraft-forge10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ejm554/gaia-modpack
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
A pretty-big Minecraft Forge modpack focusing on nature, architechure, and a little technology. Designed to run on a multiplayer server, but it will work fine in singleplayer also. Currently requires Minecraft 1.18.2.
Contributions:1 release, 53 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
modpackmultiplayer-serverminecraft-forge-modsingleplayerminecraft-server
ejm554/wiki
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
The sources of the wiki pages for MultiMC
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
commonstiddlywikiwiki-pagesmultimctiddlywiki5
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